On Vulnerabilities of the Security Association in the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) support a variety of real-time health monitoring and consumer electronics applications. The latest international standard for WBAN is the IEEE 802.15.6. The security association in this standard includes four elliptic curve-based key agreement protocols that are used for generating a master key. In this paper, we challenge the security of the IEEE 802.15.6 standard by showing vulnerabilities of those four protocols to several attacks. We perform a security analysis on the protocols, and show that they all have security problems, and are vulnerable to different attacks

Password Authentication Key Exchange Mechanism using Identity Based System

In digital world various authentication techniques are used, password authentication is one of the traditional technique. Many improvements are made in password authentication techniques as only password authentication cannot withstand today?s attack. One of the password authentication technique is two-server password authentication. In two-server password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocol, a client splits its password and stores two shares of its password in the two servers, respectively, and the two servers then cooperate to authenticate the client without knowing the password of the client. In case one server is compromised by an adversary, the password of the client is required to remain secure. Research work proposed two servers that stores two shares of identity password in encrypted format. The two shares of passwords will be stored in such a way that identity password will be reformed with the help of any user defined algorithm. Along with password authentication, here idea is to implement identity based on encryption technique to encrypt the documents and messages. Proposed system will prevent dictionary, shoulder surfing, and key logger attacks

Efficient and Secure Cross-Realm Client-to-Client Password-Authenticated Key Exchange

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